Heat Treatment for Heat Treatment Professionals
Course
In Rotherham
Description
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Type
Workshop
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Location
Rotherham
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Duration
2 Days
Common engineering steels, stainless steels, nickel based alloy systems and titanium and aluminium alloy systems will be covered. Suitable for: The course is aimed at people who are currently involved in using or operating heat treatment operations in their employment and need to broaden their understanding or branch out into new fields/alloys. The course would be helpful to Works Metallurgists, General Managers, Supervisors and recent graduates in Materials Technology.
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About this course
To gain maximum benefit from the course, people with little or no prior metallurgical knowledge may find attendance on the Introduction to Heat Treatment course first helpful.
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Teachers and trainers (1)
Ken Wrigley
Course Manager
Ken Wrigley is currently a consultant on metals processing issues. He is a career metallurgist with over 30 years of experience in the provision of heat treated products, particularly to the aerospace, off-shore, railway and general engineering sectors. In a career culminating as Technical Director of a number of forging companies, he has experience of heat treatment issues from shop floor to boardroom. He has been an active member of BSI drafting committees, TIG, the Materials Forum and has presented on the Sheffield Universities MSc modules.
Course programme
This is a two day workshop targeted at people who are already involved in using or operating heat treatment operations and need a fuller understanding of heat treatment principles in their job.
The course aims to be practical in nature but heat treatment is a process of micro-structural engineering and the fundamentals will be addressed. However, no prior knowledge is required.
Common engineering steels, stainless steels, nickel based alloy systems and titanium and aluminium alloy systems will be covered. The course will consider bulk heat treatments but not surface heat treatments.
- Welcome and Introductions
- The structure of metals and alloys
- Transformation and precipitation
- Effects of alloying:
- Ferrous system, including Stainless Steels
- Nickel and Cobalt Systems
- Light Alloys
- Titanium and Aluminium
- Furnace Types
- Heating/Soaking/Cooling/Quenching Systems
- Selection of heat treatment parameters
- Use of predictive tools
- Heat treatment and test failures
- Quality Assurance in heat treatment; Furnace condition monitoring, Oil and polymer sampling, Quench rate testing, Pyrometry and furnace surveying, NADCAP/NORSOK/API requirements, Training of operatives
- What goes wrong? - case studies
- Problem solving session
08.45-09.00hrs Registration. 17.00hrs Finish.
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Heat Treatment for Heat Treatment Professionals